Olof Peter Ahlgren (1823-1906) is listed as a carpenter at the rear of 90 Front Street in Chicago in the 1876 Lakeside Annual Directory of..... Read More about 1855–1881 Manuscript Account Book owned by Swedish-American, carpenter and cabinetmaker, Olof...
Hannah Smith received a letter written on November 26, 1871 from her cousin who survived the Great Chicago Fire—“…never again do I want to behold..... Read More about 1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire...
Pair of World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command class books from the Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments Training Detachment. These..... Read More about U. S. Army Air Forces. Technical Training Command. Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments....
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left..... Read More about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
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Full-length portrait photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale of the 68th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. Beale is shown in uniform, holding a sword and..... Read More about CDV Photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale, 68th Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry
Rare first catalog for the Georgetown Seminary located in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County. We find no material specific to this institution on OCLC. Byrd 1576..... Read More about First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown Seminary. Georgetown, Illinois,...
Presentation inscription on title page: “With respects of Gov. French”, i.e., Illinois Governor Augustus C. French (1808–1864) who “struggled to obtain an education, finally leaving..... Read More about An Appeal in Behalf of Common Schools in Illinois [Presentation copy from Illinois Governor...
Not recorded on OCLC. In two separate OCLC accessions, for two separate years, AAS supplies entries for the years 1848 and 1850, but not this year..... Read More about Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at...
Charter of the Illinois Coal Company accompanied by a statistical analysis of the company’s lands and business prospects. The property of the company comprised 1,400..... Read More about Statistics and Charter, of the Illinois Coal Company; incorporated by Act of the Illinois...
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The conference was held at Belleville, Illinois, close to St. Louis..... Read More about Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held at Belleville,...
Rare souvenir advertising booklet for jeweler Julius C. Walk associating his business with Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Illustrated with ten full-page, half tone illustrations..... Read More about Chicago 1893. World’s Columbian Exposition Souvenir Compliments of Julius C. Walk, Jeweler,...
Unrecorded. Voting Rights broadside mobilizing Chicagoans to rally in Jackson, Mississippi with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the “Meredith Mississippi March” in support of..... Read More about We Can’t Wait. Join Meredith Mississippi March. Meet! Mobilize! March! “A Sunday with Martin...
The book studies, in part, the beginnings of slavery in Illinois Country (1719-1783), slavery in the Illinois Territory (1800-1818), the slavery question in the courts..... Read More about The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864....
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A humorous and quirky trade catalog with chromolithographic covers for agricultural plows manufactured by the Rock Island Plow Co. of Rock Island, Illinois: This memorandum..... Read More about Rock Island Plow Co., Rock Island, Ill. [cover title of trade catalog
This Illinois railroad was incorporated on August 9, 1904. Its immediate purpose was to operate a short-line railroad carrying passengers and freight from Springfield to..... Read More about 1904 Springfield and Eastern Railroad of Illinois and New Jersey Articles and Certificate of...
Twenty-fifth anniversary catalog of the Storkline Furniture Corporation of Chicago selling baby cribs, high chairs, chifforobes, bathing and changing tables, “play yards” (playpens), potty chairs..... Read More about Storkline. Infant and Juvenile Furniture. Baby Carriages. Catalog No 32. 1940
